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pictographic en · ADJ
Pronunciation
Etymology
From pictograph + -ic.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Represented by pictures.
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(not-comparable) Of or pertaining to pictographs.
Deriveds
pictographically
Translations (4)
es pictográfico (Translations) · fr pictographique (Translations) · ro pictografic (Translations) · oc pictografic (Translations)
pictographic en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Etymology
From pictograph + -ic.
Meanings
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A pictograph or hieroglyph.
Only two words in English possess a bare minimum resemblance to that of pictographics: eye (two es are the eyes, and the y is the nose) and bed (two vertical strokes from b and d compose the frame of the bed).
1991, Timothy D. Huang, Jack K. T. Huang, An Introduction To Chinese, Japanese And Korean Computing, page 44:
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